The number sense : how the mind creates mathematics /

Dehaene, a mathematician turned cognitive neuropsychologist, begins with the eye-opening discovery that animals, including rats, pigeons, raccoons, and chimpanzees, can perform simple mathematical calculations. He goes on to describe ingenious experiments that show that human infants also have a rud...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Dehaene, Stanislas
Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Our Numerical Heritage
  • Talented and Gifted Animals
  • A Horse Named Hans
  • Rat Accountants
  • How Abstract Are Animal Calculations?
  • The Accumulator Metaphor
  • Number-Detecting Neurons?
  • Fuzzy Counting
  • The Limits of Animal Mathematics
  • From Animal to Human
  • Babies Who Count
  • Baby Building: Piaget's Theory
  • Piaget's Errors
  • Younger and Younger
  • Babies' Power of Abstraction
  • How Much Is 1 plus 1?
  • The Limits of Infant Arithmetic
  • Nature, Nurture, and Number
  • The Adult Number Line
  • 1, 2, 3, and Beyond
  • Approximating Large Numbers
  • The Quantity Behind the Symbols
  • The Mental Compression of Large Numbers
  • Reflexive Access to Number Meaning
  • A Sense of Space
  • Do Numbers Have Colors?
  • Intuitions of Number
  • Beyond Approximation
  • The Language of Numbers
  • A Short History of Number
  • Keeping a Permanent Trace of Numerals
  • The Place-Value Principle
  • An Exuberant Diversity of Number Languages
  • The Cost of Speaking English
  • Learning to Label Quantities
  • Round Numbers, Sharp Numbers
  • Why Are Some Numerals More Frequent Than Others?
  • Cerebral Constraints on Cultural Evolution
  • Small Heads for Big Calculations
  • Counting: The ABC of Calculation
  • Preschoolers as Algorithm Designers
  • Memory Appears on the Scene
  • The Multiplication Table: An Unnatural Practice?
  • Verbal Memory to the Rescue
  • Mental Bugs
  • Pros and Cons of the Electronic Calculator
  • Innumeracy: Clear and Present Danger?
  • Teaching Number Sense
  • Geniuses and Prodigies
  • A Numerical Bestiary.